Another segment appears...
“…” – Normal Speech
- Radio communications
… […] - Foreign language [Translation]
… – Device Speech
~ … ~ - Thoughts
… – Spell casting
**22**
The pouch felt a little odd, sat against her right knee like that, but she’d finally realised where she’d recognised it from (and ignoring the slight headache she got, after all it wasn’t as if she didn’t already have worse) and had slipped it on. There was a slight urge of satisfaction as her hunch proved correct, and the program of her costume took hold and made the material the same white as the legging.
After all, it wouldn’t be much of a prize to her if she couldn’t actually use it.
A.C. concentrated, and with a brief glow of the gem the flap of the pouch sprung open. With a smooth, near automatic motion (being a cyborg had its benefits after all) she reached in and pulled out a vambrace-like device. With the same motion, she flipped it over to the topside of her arm via the finger hole she’d pulled it out by, causing a line to momentarily appear from the device to the finger hole…
…And watched as her own right vambrace’s armour segments split down the centre and folded outward to let the device in. There was a click as the device fastened onto her arm before the armour segments folded back in, clamping the device in position.
With a flash of energy up the arm the two merged, leaving an armoured device as her right vambrace. All that seemed to be left of the device was its bulk, a wedge-like protrusion at the centre of the top end, and an inlaid orange cylinder set crosswise about half way up it.
Examining it closely the senshi cyborg noted that the front now had a wire launcher nozzle at the front, and a straight-edged D shaped segment inlaid just behind it. With a tiny twitch of her hand, the segment popped its small end out from where it laid flush with the armour.
A.C. smiled and pushed it back flush.
Next she put the dulled-silver bracelet on her left wrist, and frowned when nothing happened. She moved to take it off, and found it clamped down on her wrist as its teardrop-shaped ruby-like gem glinted malevolently. The raven-hared cyberneticist considered it darkly but moved on to the remaining items, semi-consciously extending and using her hair to drop the open flap of the knee-pouch. She’d find something to put in it later.
The Belkan Senshi took one of the grey backed amulets and managed to attach it navel level with thin dulled platinum chains linked together as a belt, the deep red, almost purple gem glittering darkly above the wider semi-circle that seemed to be the bottom, almost like a dark sun rising. With the help of some more dulled platinum chain she fitted another halfway up the neckline of her fuku, and finally slipped one on each of her wrists, just out of the way of everything else.
Satisfied she’d managed to get everything she currently could out of her collection, she put them away again.
It was time to get back to work.
***
The corridor was empty.
Thus A.C. was taking it as though it was trapped to the gills. She had been tracking a group of Op-For down this way for the past few minutes.
The wall to the front of her shattered, filling the corridor with dust and causing her to stop. She didn't have to wait very long as a Pearl Otome charged out of the cloud, staff-like element extended like a spear. A.C. dodged out of the way, bringing Laevatein round when a second and third Otome came out of the dust at her. The emerald-eyed cyborg reversed Laevatein’s swing to parry the right Otome’s element, slipping out of the way of the thrust from the left Otome and swinging a left cross into the right Otome’s face, knocking her into the wall.
Spinning, A.C. caught the two staffs of the other two Otome on Laevatein’s blade, and with a magically enhanced push threw them back down the corridor. Then the Scarlet Angel snapped round again, this time to throw a quickly pulled knife into the head of the Otome she’d smashed into the wall. The Otome’s Robe stopped the knife penetrating, but the force of the blow knocked her onto her back. This cleared the way for A.C. to see three more Otome come through the hole in the wall and charge at her.
The three new Pearl Otome had obviously worked together before, probably a Ninja team, as the Belkan Senshi rapidly parried the thrusts and swings of the team and was gradually made to give way with a step back. They pressed their advantage, only to find that had been what the lady knight of Mars had wanted.
With a speed almost beyond sight, the combat cyborg slammed a heeled kick into the midsection of the middle Pearl, folding her over the foot before shooting her down the corridor as though hit by a cannon shell. The raven-hared warrior followed through the kick by turning it into a vertical split as she drooped to the floor. Catching herself on her hands she span herself round as if she was on a gymnastics horse, cutting the legs out from under the other two Pearl Otome with violent force. Bringing her legs back in front of her, she arrested her spin and snapped into a full extension backflip. This caught the two Otome she thrown back with Laevatein under the chins from where they’d charged in, before her flip allowed her to wrap her shapely and heavily muscled thighs around the head of the Otome she’d thrown the knife at, who had recovered and tried to catch her unawares. This Otome had a brief moment to consider having her face planted so intimately in the well rounded buttocks of the Belkan Senshi of Mars (experiencing something quite a lot of people would do anything to enjoy) before the seductive cyber flipped forward to pile-drive the Otome’s head into the ground. A.C. then finished her off by slamming Laevatein double handed down through her heart.
The four Otome now in front of her froze as the Scarlet Angel’s vicious smile and bloodlust-filled eyes turned on them. The senshi cyborg sprang forward, leaving her Device impaling the Otome (now dissolving into green sparkles) to the ground, to land crouched between them. The red gem in the dull grey bracelet on her left forearm glinted malevolently…
…And the Otome found themselves stabbed through the heart.
The combat cyborg had struck out at the two Otome in front of her with knife-hand attacks. This was compounded by the 30cm/1 foot long razor-edged talons that had suddenly sprouted from her nails. The two beside/behind her were impaled by the pointed spears formed from the waveborg’s hair, right through their bodies into the walls behind them.
Straightening from her lunge, A.C. pulled the impalements from their respective bodies and walked back to Laevatein leaving the Otome to collapse to the floor and dissolve in green sparkles. Looking at her hands, she noticed that the talons hadn’t sliced their way through her gloves. Her gloves had developed an open lace top to the fingertips, allowing the scarlet coloured fingernails granted by her senshi transformation to be seen and poke through. In fact, her talons were red mostly due to the enamelling that covered them, after she’d flicked the blood off (unconsciously having done the same previous with the hair-spears before they’d returned to being normal hair). With a thought, and just as fast, her talons shrank back to her normal practical yet fashionable length and were covered by her gloves as the lace closed up. The beautiful cyberneticist casually pulled Laevatein from the floor with her right hand as she walked by and brought him up to examine him, leaving her rear ribbons to swat the charging final Otome into the wall, wrap around her neck like a noose, and pull tight. They snapped back to their usual size and shape a couple of steps later.
Seemingly content that Laevatein hadn’t been damaged, the Belkan Senshi stepped into the air and flew off.
Not sure if I got the impression of frantic action over in the last scene. Comments?
“…” – Normal Speech
- Radio communications
… […] - Foreign language [Translation]
… – Device Speech
~ … ~ - Thoughts
… – Spell casting
**22**
The pouch felt a little odd, sat against her right knee like that, but she’d finally realised where she’d recognised it from (and ignoring the slight headache she got, after all it wasn’t as if she didn’t already have worse) and had slipped it on. There was a slight urge of satisfaction as her hunch proved correct, and the program of her costume took hold and made the material the same white as the legging.
After all, it wouldn’t be much of a prize to her if she couldn’t actually use it.
A.C. concentrated, and with a brief glow of the gem the flap of the pouch sprung open. With a smooth, near automatic motion (being a cyborg had its benefits after all) she reached in and pulled out a vambrace-like device. With the same motion, she flipped it over to the topside of her arm via the finger hole she’d pulled it out by, causing a line to momentarily appear from the device to the finger hole…
…And watched as her own right vambrace’s armour segments split down the centre and folded outward to let the device in. There was a click as the device fastened onto her arm before the armour segments folded back in, clamping the device in position.
With a flash of energy up the arm the two merged, leaving an armoured device as her right vambrace. All that seemed to be left of the device was its bulk, a wedge-like protrusion at the centre of the top end, and an inlaid orange cylinder set crosswise about half way up it.
Examining it closely the senshi cyborg noted that the front now had a wire launcher nozzle at the front, and a straight-edged D shaped segment inlaid just behind it. With a tiny twitch of her hand, the segment popped its small end out from where it laid flush with the armour.
A.C. smiled and pushed it back flush.
Next she put the dulled-silver bracelet on her left wrist, and frowned when nothing happened. She moved to take it off, and found it clamped down on her wrist as its teardrop-shaped ruby-like gem glinted malevolently. The raven-hared cyberneticist considered it darkly but moved on to the remaining items, semi-consciously extending and using her hair to drop the open flap of the knee-pouch. She’d find something to put in it later.
The Belkan Senshi took one of the grey backed amulets and managed to attach it navel level with thin dulled platinum chains linked together as a belt, the deep red, almost purple gem glittering darkly above the wider semi-circle that seemed to be the bottom, almost like a dark sun rising. With the help of some more dulled platinum chain she fitted another halfway up the neckline of her fuku, and finally slipped one on each of her wrists, just out of the way of everything else.
Satisfied she’d managed to get everything she currently could out of her collection, she put them away again.
It was time to get back to work.
***
The corridor was empty.
Thus A.C. was taking it as though it was trapped to the gills. She had been tracking a group of Op-For down this way for the past few minutes.
The wall to the front of her shattered, filling the corridor with dust and causing her to stop. She didn't have to wait very long as a Pearl Otome charged out of the cloud, staff-like element extended like a spear. A.C. dodged out of the way, bringing Laevatein round when a second and third Otome came out of the dust at her. The emerald-eyed cyborg reversed Laevatein’s swing to parry the right Otome’s element, slipping out of the way of the thrust from the left Otome and swinging a left cross into the right Otome’s face, knocking her into the wall.
Spinning, A.C. caught the two staffs of the other two Otome on Laevatein’s blade, and with a magically enhanced push threw them back down the corridor. Then the Scarlet Angel snapped round again, this time to throw a quickly pulled knife into the head of the Otome she’d smashed into the wall. The Otome’s Robe stopped the knife penetrating, but the force of the blow knocked her onto her back. This cleared the way for A.C. to see three more Otome come through the hole in the wall and charge at her.
The three new Pearl Otome had obviously worked together before, probably a Ninja team, as the Belkan Senshi rapidly parried the thrusts and swings of the team and was gradually made to give way with a step back. They pressed their advantage, only to find that had been what the lady knight of Mars had wanted.
With a speed almost beyond sight, the combat cyborg slammed a heeled kick into the midsection of the middle Pearl, folding her over the foot before shooting her down the corridor as though hit by a cannon shell. The raven-hared warrior followed through the kick by turning it into a vertical split as she drooped to the floor. Catching herself on her hands she span herself round as if she was on a gymnastics horse, cutting the legs out from under the other two Pearl Otome with violent force. Bringing her legs back in front of her, she arrested her spin and snapped into a full extension backflip. This caught the two Otome she thrown back with Laevatein under the chins from where they’d charged in, before her flip allowed her to wrap her shapely and heavily muscled thighs around the head of the Otome she’d thrown the knife at, who had recovered and tried to catch her unawares. This Otome had a brief moment to consider having her face planted so intimately in the well rounded buttocks of the Belkan Senshi of Mars (experiencing something quite a lot of people would do anything to enjoy) before the seductive cyber flipped forward to pile-drive the Otome’s head into the ground. A.C. then finished her off by slamming Laevatein double handed down through her heart.
The four Otome now in front of her froze as the Scarlet Angel’s vicious smile and bloodlust-filled eyes turned on them. The senshi cyborg sprang forward, leaving her Device impaling the Otome (now dissolving into green sparkles) to the ground, to land crouched between them. The red gem in the dull grey bracelet on her left forearm glinted malevolently…
…And the Otome found themselves stabbed through the heart.
The combat cyborg had struck out at the two Otome in front of her with knife-hand attacks. This was compounded by the 30cm/1 foot long razor-edged talons that had suddenly sprouted from her nails. The two beside/behind her were impaled by the pointed spears formed from the waveborg’s hair, right through their bodies into the walls behind them.
Straightening from her lunge, A.C. pulled the impalements from their respective bodies and walked back to Laevatein leaving the Otome to collapse to the floor and dissolve in green sparkles. Looking at her hands, she noticed that the talons hadn’t sliced their way through her gloves. Her gloves had developed an open lace top to the fingertips, allowing the scarlet coloured fingernails granted by her senshi transformation to be seen and poke through. In fact, her talons were red mostly due to the enamelling that covered them, after she’d flicked the blood off (unconsciously having done the same previous with the hair-spears before they’d returned to being normal hair). With a thought, and just as fast, her talons shrank back to her normal practical yet fashionable length and were covered by her gloves as the lace closed up. The beautiful cyberneticist casually pulled Laevatein from the floor with her right hand as she walked by and brought him up to examine him, leaving her rear ribbons to swat the charging final Otome into the wall, wrap around her neck like a noose, and pull tight. They snapped back to their usual size and shape a couple of steps later.
Seemingly content that Laevatein hadn’t been damaged, the Belkan Senshi stepped into the air and flew off.
Not sure if I got the impression of frantic action over in the last scene. Comments?